..., elected to the of the United States for six years.--He gave so much satisfaction that he was elected in 1855. Salmon Portland Chase was born at Corn- N. H., on the opposite bank of the Connecticut river from Windsor, Vt., in the year . When nine years of age his father died, and three years after this bereavement, in the young Chase was found at the seminary in Worthington, Ohio, then conducte...